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ERP systems and organizational learning: Where do we stand? A literature review
Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
2014 (English)In: Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on IS Management and Evaluation, ECIME 2014 / [ed] De Haes S., Devos J., Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, 2014, p. 155-162Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

ERP systems are today implemented in a great number of organizations. Research has invested much energy and time to make descriptions and recommendations regarding how the implementation should best be managed. The next step in practice as well as in research is how to continue to develop the business processes and ERP systems in order to take advantage of all their promises, and to refine how ERP systems are used in day-to-day activities. A starting point for the present study is that organizations today are characterized by strong external and internal pressure. In order to response to and deal with these, organizations strive to balance demands regarding stability and change. This implies that organizations put effort into designing and maintaining or changing practices, rules and routines. Within the general fields of organization theory and management accounting/control the ambition to create deliberate change is often conceptualized as processes of organizational learning (OL). This concept has also been used in the context of ERP systems. The research field is however heterogeneous and findings are scattered and inconsistent. There is a need for further development of our knowledge about the role of ERP systems in processes of organizational learning after the implementation phase. The present paper strives to consolidate and synthesize the current knowledge. The research question is to what extent and how do research conceptualize organizational learning and its interactions and involvement with the ERP system? The paper is a literature review of research on OL in the context of ERP systems. The aim is to analyze and classify previous research, and also to give suggestions for avenues suitable and fruitful for future research. The review compares and contrasts approaches in order to analyze similarities and dissimilarities and to investigate what topics or issues have been addressed by previous research. The analysis shows that overall there is a lack of definitions and stringency in research on OL in an ERP systems context in the post-implementation phase. The final section also forwards some suggestions for future research.

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Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, 2014. p. 155-162
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Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation
Keywords [en]
ERP systems, organizational learning, stability, change, literature review
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Business Administration
Research subject
Business Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-62649ISI: 000351437200018Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84942133188ISBN: 978-1-910309-43-8 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-62649DiVA, id: diva2:1157983
Conference
8th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation (ECIME 2014), Ghent, Belgium, September 11-12, 2014
Available from: 2014-09-03 Created: 2017-11-17 Last updated: 2018-06-25Bibliographically approved

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